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e the terms that we heard refer to it now. This is just random people on social media, random people writing articles. A lot of them used the phrase "shake the box." Where's that come from? I mean, I didn't invent the term "shake the box," but to apply it to Trump's persuasion, that's kind of all me. What about 4D chess? That's all me. 2015, I described it as 3D chess, I think, but it turned into…

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showing what she did say versus what they added in. I saw only one example from Frog on Mars on X that she gave a 338-word rambling answer that involved school pictures and all kinds of stuff. And I think the question was about Trump's comments about the Asian immigrants and eating their pets or something like that. I think that was the issue. But her answer was just as long, not quite word salad because it made sense, but it all seemed just slightly off topic and like she was just searching for a smart answer but never found one. A

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nd they replaced 338 words with 29 words that came from a completely different answer. Now, the completely different answer was not different from the 338-word answer, meaning that in both cases she said, you know, that's unacceptable or you know that's wrong. So she was basically just saying Trump was wrong to say whatever he did or do whatever he did. Now, here is the context. Do you think that…

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